Faculty Archives
Digital Library and Archives has provided web space for faculty projects to be preserved in digital form. For information for faculty who would like to deposit materials into the "Faculty Archives," please contact Gail McMillan at gailmac@vt.edu or call (540) 231-9252.
Both Slavery in the American Mountain South
and Oral History of Principalship started
as projects by VT faculty and are hosted by DLA.
Janet L. Cameron
Janet L. Cameron Scrapbook
Traveling across Virginia as a Food and Nutrition Specialist from 1931-1964, Janet Cameron demonstrated modern recipes, cooking techniques and food preparation ideas she developed to home demonstration club and 4-H club leaders. Alice Johnson documented Cameron's activities in this scrapbook and the Culinary Thymes Issue 2, Winter 2001 featured an article about Cameron's work.Patrick W. Carlton
Principalship Project
This is a collection of interviews of school principals from around Virginia. Transcripts and audio samples are provided. These pages were developed by Dr. Carlton in conjunction with the New Media Center [renamed InnovationSpace in 2008] while he was on the Virginia Tech faculty. Ms89-040Raymond Dessy, Professor Emeritus
Exile from Olynthus
Dr. Dessy has documented the year (1927-1928) that Wilhelmina van Ingen Elarth spent abroad at the American School for Classical Studies (ASCSA) in Athens. She participated in the excavations at the archeological site of the city of Olynthus. Elarth, graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, studied in Art and Architecture. Her collection is available in Special Collections, Ms69-004Mapping the Blues Genes, Early Blues Music: 1900-1930
This essay examines the mutations of the "genes" which led to the expression of the early blues. Imbedded in the text are numberous examples of lyrics and cover-art from 1904-1928.William E. Dugger, Jr., Professor Emeritus
As director of the Technology for all Americans Project, Dr. Dugger lead the development of standards for technological literacy for the International Technology Education Association. The original TAA site is also available.
Wilma A. Dunaway
Slavery and Emancipation in the Mountain South: Sources, Evidence and Methods
This is online archives supports Dr. Dunaway's books, Slavery in the American Mountain South and The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. Slavery flourished amidst a nonslaveholding majority and a large surplus of poor white landless laborers in Southern Appalachia.Southern Laboring Women: The Gendered Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Antebellum Appalachia, 1700-1860
This is the companion website for Dr. Dunaway's book, Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2008), where she investigates the scope and socioeconomic impacts of antebellum women's work for the multiethnic majority of females who resided in the Appalachian South.Ann Hertzler, Professor Emerita
I've Been Working in the Kitchen
This digital presentation was adapted from the slides and script created in the late 1980's for the Virginia Cooperative Extension to spark interest in teaching preschool children basic kitchen skills. The >90 images portray preschoolers "learning by doing" by building on their basic skill set. This is part of the Dr. Ann Hertzler Collection, Ms2001-004.
I've Been Working in the Kitchen PDF (5.4 MB)
I've Been Working in the Kitchen Powerpoint Slides (6.8 MB)
I've Been Working in the Kitchen Script (12.6 K)The Food Curriculum
Co-authored by Marilyn Blossom, this digital presentation was adapted from the slides and script created for the Missouri Cooperative Extension. It was intended to show how to teach preschool children basic kitchen skills. The >130 images portray preschoolers "learning by doing" by introducing where foods come from, food preparation skills, and different food nutritional values. This presentation also illustrates how children also learn to use math, social, classification, and motor skills while preparing food. This is part of the Dr. Ann Hertzler Collection, Ms2001-004.
The Food Curriculum PDF ( MB)
The Food Curriculum Powerpoint Slides ( MB)
The Food Curriculum Script ( K)Nutrition Central
This site was aimed at K-6 teachers and students, offering information on all the food groups, pages just for teachers, just for students and food related books. Ann developed this site while she was faculty for Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise at Virginia Tech.Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni & Abbye A. Gorin
A Visual Text: History of Architecture Catalogue for Hypertext
This site was developed for teaching art history to Virginia Tech's Architecture students by Dr. Rodriguez and Abbye A. Gorin. The originial text and images were on a laser disk and then reformatted as this web site. This site is available to the VT campus only.Richard B. Talbot
The Green Book
In the 1990s, the Scholarly Communications Project worked with Dr. Richard Talbot to provide access to the FDA Approved Animal Drug Data Base, a database that was developed and managed by the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. TheGreen Book is published by the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine.
